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2 hrs ago | Truthdig

British Terror Attack Suspect Had Watched Friend Cut to Pieces

One of the suspects in the killing of a British military drummer last week saw a friend "literally sliced to pieces" when they were both teenagers.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, US News

6 hrs ago | Daily Kos

Rush Limbaugh Whistles Past the Graveyard, Claims Dead Air During Ad Breaks Part of the Plan

Never a stickler for the truth , the embattled right wing talk show host--who once boasted of his power to command "confiscatory" ad rates --is now claiming that those long minutes of silence during his ad breaks are something the network does deliberately: Dead Air began advertising in earnest on the Rush Limbaugh Show immediately following his ... (more)

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Related Topix: Rush Limbaugh, Social Software, US News

10 hrs ago | OpEdNews

Congressman Quotes Jesus in Bid to Gut Food Stamps

GOP Congressman Stephen Fincher is on a mission from God. He wants to drastically cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps, for 47 million of our poorest citizens.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Tea Party, US News, Agriculture, Science

14 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

'Four little girls' killed in 1963 church bombing honored with Congressional Gold Medal

Source: washington post 'Four little girls' received in death Friday one of the country's highest civilian awards, as the nation's first African American president honored some of the youngest victims in the historic fight for equal rights.

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Related Topix: Obituaries, US News

Fri May 24, 2013

Common Dreams

In Drone Speech, Obama Gets Slippery on Killing US Citizens

When he talked about the need to shut down Guantanamo, he said: "Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are holding a hunger strike.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

Daily Kos

MA-Sen: Tom Steyer Returns To Massachusetts To Guarantee An Ed Markey (D) Victory

Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Edward Markey is holding a 12-point lead over his Republican competitor Gabriel Gomez, according to a poll released on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Edward Markey, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Stephen Lynch, Democrat, Emerson College, Barack Obama

MSNBC

Recommended: Big earthquakes create global-scale GPS errors

Thirteen years of supersized earthquakes, such as Friday's magnitude-8.3 in Russia, have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Geology, Science, US News

Daily Kos

Mock Drill at S.D. school uses XL Pipeline Bomb threat

BOLD NE A school district in Hot Springs, S.D. held a mock emergency drill based on an imaginary threat letter that said, "things dear to everyone will be destroyed unless continuation of the Keystone pipeline and uranium mining is stopped immediately." "The [Keystone and mining] opponents are about as non-violent bunch of people as you can ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hot Springs, SD, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Common Dreams

Homeowners Take the Foreclosure Fight to the DOJ

Gisele Mata of Whittier, California, never considered herself a political activist.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, US News, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Daily Kos

In Iowa, Scott Walker says GOP should look to governors 'to move forward'

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, offering something of a self-endorsement on Thursday night at Iowa's annual Polk County GOP fundraising dinner: "We should look to our states, to our governors, to our state legislative leaders to show the pathway we take not only in our states but in our country to move forward," the Wisconsin governor told more than ... (more)

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Related Topix: Scott Walker, US Governors, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Tim Pawlenty

Common Dreams

Justice for Patriot Mineworkers?

Remember the phrase "good union job"? In contrast to the contingent fragile world of retail, service and fast food, a good union job is the sort union coal miners have.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Fast Food, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Energy, Patriot Coal, Castlewood, VA, US News

Common Dreams

Take Syria Seriously - And Stay Out

Syria's civil war has inspired some in Congress and in the media. Stupidity or insanity? Some people don't learn from past mistakes.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), US Military, US Air Force, US News

National Public Radio

Political Attacks Ramp Up In Mass. U.S. Senate Race

In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Kerry, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Juan Cole

Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones

In a major speech the US president also announced that he has signed into force a new - and secret - rule book for lethal action that provides 'clear guidelines, oversight and accountability' for covert drone strikes.

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Related Topix: National Defense University, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

Thu May 23, 2013

Daily Kos

Incredibly Brave UK Woman Tried To Talk Down Armed Alleged Terrorists

A horrifying murder took place Wednesday afternoon, in South East London. Two men in their 20's attacked and beheaded a British soldier with a machete-style knife.

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Related Topix: US News

Common Dreams

Top Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal

In the furious fallout from the revelation that the IRS flagged applications from conservative nonprofits for extra review because of their political activity, some points about the big picture Consider this our Top 6 list of need-to-know facts on social welfare nonprofits , also known as dark money groups because they don't have to disclose their ... (more)

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Common Dreams

Tax-Avoiding Corporations Siphoning Billions from World's Poorest

Some of the world's wealthiest corporations - utilizing secretive tax havens backed by powerful governments - are siphoning billions of dollars of potential revenue from the very same poor countries that foreign investment is so often said to be helping.

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Common Dreams

Outrage in Chicago Follows Largest Mass School Closing in US History

The axe has come down in Chicago in the largest mass school closing in US history, an act opponents have called an attempt to further privatize the school system and "neoliberal savagery masquerading as school reform." Months of protests and public furor preceded the Chicago Board of Education vote on Wednesday to close 49 elementary schools and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Education Etc., US News

Common Dreams

A Stormy Hurricane Season Is Upon Us

Satellite image from Oct. 29, 2012, shows Hurricane Sandy off of Maryland and Virginia.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy, Natural Disasters, US News

Common Dreams

Was the London Killing of a British Soldier 'Terrorism'?

Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News